In response to his complete irrelevance in a contest featuring candidates who make him look like an almond latte sipping vegan, Mike Huckabee's campaign team figured it would rip off popular artist Adele's "Hello", for reasons that are likely never to be understood in this ...read more
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
It must be a truly awful time for white evangelical conservatives. Once an ascendant and seemingly unstoppable political force that helped sweep Ronald Reagan and the Bushes into the White House, the Bible-thumpers are finding themselves culturally isolated from an ...read more
Presidential no-hoper Mike Huckabee occupies a very odd niche in the American political system. Popular enough with Christian fundamentalists to be a moderate force in conservative circles, Huckabee uses his credibility as a good ol' boy doin' the work of the Good Lord to keep ...read more
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
A little earlier today, the daily barrage of horseshit that's Fox News's stock-in-trade stopped once again for just a brief second so that Shepard Smith could say something human. This time around, the unsanctioned "Shep Moment of Truth" happened during the network's orgiastic ...read more
Behold Murica, this is what freedom looks like: What could be more Christian than discriminating against gays, breaking the law and spending time in prison? Kim Davies is a true American/Christian hero! And those tears - a martyr too! Kim Davies is just like Jesus. Except ...read more
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
Over the weekend, former Arkansas Governor and current Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee became just the latest candidate to light himself on fire to take some attention away from human fireworks display Donald Trump. Following a week in which Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ...read more
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a child molestation problem. Of course, that's not to suggest he himself is a sex offender, but he seems to be surrounded by people who have either been accused of molestation or who have outright confessed to it. Two weeks ...read more
In the mind of a religious fundamentalist like Mike Huckabee, sins are forgivable if you too are a religious fundamentalist. So when good Christians cover up molestation within their own family, then lecture everyone else on sexual immorality, it's A-OK with Mike. In fact, it ...read more
Speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee in February of this year, Mike Huckabee made not only the creepiest 'joke' of his political career, but the most overtly insensitive. Discussing the issue of transgenderism, Huckabee told the ...read more
Former Arkansas Governor and current Republican presidential wishful Mike Huckabee delivered a Hucked up civics lesson over the weekend when he told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that the Supreme Court's rulings are more sort of guidelines, really, and that nothing is ...read more
When Mike Huckabee visited a shooting range in Johnston, Iowa on Monday, he was asked by an audience whether he thought the government should be able to limit 'what type of arms a person a law abiding person can purchase'. Huckabee gave a rather alarming answer: We should have ...read more
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing ...read more
At the risk of serious overkill following Mike Huckabee's trail of idiocy these past few weeks, this latest story of stupidity really does warrant attention because it reveals a stark preview of what we should expect over the coming months as he gears up for 2016. Not content ...read more
Bonus points for tenacity to Christian conservatives like Mike Huckabee who keep on effing that chicken. In the face of nationwide bipartisan support for marriage equality, the evangelical far-right can't let go of their outdated sense of morality, nor will they abandon their ...read more
The rest of the 2016 Republican hopefuls have a lot of catching up to do in order to compete with Mike Huckabee's obvious head-start on race-baiting and gay-bashing. We've barely heard from the other clown-car passengers and already Huckabee has navigated his way through at ...read more
On Thursday, potential presidential candidate and walking Cool Whip tub Mike Huckabee appeared on something called Life Today. Speaking with televangelist host James Robinson, Huckabee explained that the United States "cannot survive as a republic if we do not become -- once ...read more
Hot on the heels of his race-shaking quasi-announcement of his pseudo-candidacy, Mike Huckabee sucked up a lot of media wind with an excerpt from his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, in which he slammed pop superstar Beyoncé, and called her husband a pimp: “Beyoncé is ...read more
Mike Huckabee wants to run for president again for some reason, and he has his sights set on one crowd that he's had some trouble reaching as a white, middle-aged Republican man: The Youths. For his new book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy -- which sounds like a rejected recipe from ...read more
On Friday night, Fox News viewers were treated to the first stage in the modern Rube Goldberg contraption that is an announcement of a presidential campaign, this time for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.). The actual announcement will come at the very end of a ...read more
Former Arkansas governor and Huckabee host Mike Huckabee has quite a talent for seeming like he's your cool, guitar-playing uncle even as he simultaneously spouts contemptible faith-based batshit. In his first matchup, Huckabee comes out swinging in our FOXTOBERFEST of Stupid ...read more
You can throw another shrimp on the barbie, and by "shrimp" I mean Republican, and by barbie, I mean the cordwood stack of rabid impeachment-mongers that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says are made up of all Democrats. The Speaker of the House isn't the only delusional ...read more
Over the weekend, the founder of Moms With Guns Demand Action gave the world a subtle hint about what kind of action they're demanding when she shared a Fox & Friends First Facebook photo of President Obama with a caption that "joked" about assassination. Fox viewer and gun ...read more
Maybe Bill O’Reilly had a point: sometimes it’s best just to shut up. Certain members of the GOP can’t seem to help themselves, and much like the strategy the Grand Old Party has embraced, it shows no sign of abating. I’m specifically talking about the War on Women. I know ...read more
What the Republicans really need to convince women that they're not retrograde white men out to trample their sexual and reproductive freedom is strong words from a guy who believes that wives should submit completely to their husbands because the Bible says so. Cue Mike ...read more
This was posted at Alex Jones' InfoWars website, so I initially assumed it was his. After listening to most of it, and having seen some of Jones' previous videos, I was positive it was an InfoWars production. But when I clicked over to YouTube to grab the embed code, it turned ...read more
"The experience of going to Fox News on pot cookies is -- I’ve never been more scared and bored in my life." -- Comedian Joe Mande on his visit to a taping of Huckabee while high off his ass Mande and his Totally J/K co-host Noah Garfinkel apparently dressed up, got high, then ...read more
While most of America appears to be getting in line with history by embracing marriage equality, there continues to be a strikingly large pile of holdouts who obviously don't recall the infamy of those who opposed interracial marriage, women's suffrage, integration, the Civil ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: I've been putting off writing something like this for a very long time. True, for quite a while I've kept a running tab of his scathing, subversive and generally balls-out brilliant comments -- the ones that have gotten him justifiably tagged as the lone ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: I've never been one of those people to let a little corporate malfeasance stand in the way of getting what I want. Call me an asshole, but the fact is that I'm cynical and realistic enough to understand that every company is probably engaged in some kind of ...read more
The topline story everyone is taking away from this CNN poll of Republicans is that a majority of respondents favor a candidate that "can beat Barack Obama" over one who "agrees with you on issues." This is supposed to tell us that GOP voters will be pragmatic. But if you look ...read more
